The Biden Agenda — Reckoning with Ukraine and Iraq, and keeping an eye on 2016. … “No pressure, but I do have another couple who are very interested.” — BUY AS PRINT» … “In closing, I would like to remind the jury that he says he didn't do it.” — BUY AS PRINT»

Castro: Rick Perry ‘militarizing’ border — Texas Rep. Joaquín Castro on Monday said Gov. Rick Perry's is “militarizing our border” with his reported decision to deploy state National Guard troops there. — “We should be sending the Red Cross to the border not the National Guard …

Dim views of Hillary Clinton's time at State — A majority of voters are unimpressed with Hillary Clinton's performance as secretary of state, according to a new POLITICO poll. — Just 14 percent described her time at State — she served four years ending in February 2013 — as “excellent,” while 28 percent defined it as “good.”

POLITICO poll: Stay out of Ukraine, Middle East — Amid deepening violence across Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Americans are recoiling from direct engagement overseas and oppose U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine by large margins, according to a POLITICO poll of 2014 battleground voters.

Clinton Earns $12 Million Speaking, Writing After Service — Hillary Clinton has earned at least $12 million in 16 months since leaving the State Department, a windfall at odds with her party's call to shrink the gap between the rich and the poor. — Clinton's income since her resignation …

IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total number of crash victims to “less than 20,” and also said that the agency does not know if the lost emails are still backed up somewhere.

An Imaginary Budget and Debt Crisis — For much of the past five years readers of the political and economic news were left in little doubt that budget deficits and rising debt were the most important issue facing America. Serious people constantly issued dire warnings that the United States risked turning …

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